The problem involves copyright. Under the present system, we give references for all copyrighted material (such as in the Literature List), so those wanting the material can go to the nearest academic library and read it themselves. We are not publishing it ourselves.
If they are unable to find this material, we will furnish it for a twenty cents per page copying fee (inflation raised it from our old fifteen cents rate) plus a first class stamp. It is still a one-off, copying only charge and is still quite legal under the "fair use" provisions of the copyright act.
The problem occurs if we have the whole archive online for anyone to access. While the legal points are still unclear (do we really want to be the test case on this?), it looks very like publishing.
This is not an argument against digitizing the archive. It would be quite useful to have such material at hand so rather than hunt through four four-drawer filing cabinets, xerographically copying, and mailing the copy. We could simply email the document. There is no predicting what overseas mailing might cost. Last year it cost almost as much to send Mythworld to Finland as the game itself costs.
This not only requires legal counsel, but for one well-trained and experienced in copyright law.
Paul Cardwell
From: Bryan Campbell <scooterinab@hotmail.com>
To: CAR-PGa <car-pga@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Fri, November 26, 2010 7:16:32 PM
Subject: [CAR-PGa] "Proceed with Caution: How Digital Archives Have Benn Left in the Dark"
I thought I would share this with everyone. I've been in talks with
Paul (and Alan) about consolidating and making available the CAR-PGa's
archive.
http://www.btlj.org/data/review/24-437-473.pdf
I think the deal killer (or deal maker, depending on your perspective)
for us is that archives of articles and papers as in fact for research
and educational purposes. Of course, the whole business is fuzzy and
complicated.
All of that said, do we have any members (or know of someone) with
legal experience? It wouldn't be a bad idea to have another set of
eyes look at this whole business.
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